Police arrested Mitchell Asa, 21, and Marcus Forest-Cooper, 24, around 9:30 pm last night, after officers saw them running from the house.

Dirk Tarman, 37, who lives on Northeast 18th Avenue just off Alberta, told police that a week ago he saw a black BMW partially blocking his driveway, and he left a note asking them not to do so. Then, again last night, the same car was blocking his driveway again. He called police and had parking patrol tow the car.

A group of four men knocked on his door demanding to know where the car was, police say. After Tarman told the men the BMW was towed, Forest-Cooper then came up to Tarman's porch and began assaulting
him—and the fight moved into the house, police say.

"I was
holding a cordless drill cause I was doing some afterwork remodeling on
my house. I punched him in the face with my big 18v Dewalt cordless.
Then we started wrestling. I was wrestling standing up with the biggest
one. The smallest one started punching me but he was so weak that it
felt like butterflies kissing me. We wrestled in the house and on the
front porch."

Tarman writes that after he threw the men out, one of them tried to steal his cordless drill, but he still had a good grip on it and slammed the door in their faces.

"One of them then punched my door window in and cut the shit out of his arm," he writes, adding: "I’m fine but my wife is super pissed at me."

Police say Forest-Cooper had an injury on one of his arms, and was treated and released at a Portland hospital. Asa and Forest-Cooper were charged with burglary in the first degree and assault in the third degree and were booked into the Multnomah County Jail.

Their arraignment is set for Sept. 3. One other man wasn't located by police, the fourth wasn't charged.